# Physical Compute Repricing **Entity class:** Technology-market concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Compute markets **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Physical compute repricing is the change in economic value assigned to chips, data centers, power rights, cooling systems, and related infrastructure as demand for machine intelligence changes. ## Mechanism and significance A model breakthrough can reprice hardware upward through demand or downward by making the same capability possible with fewer resources. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Cost per Token]] · [[Orchestration Economics]] · [[Wispr Flow]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.